it needs to be addressed locally. time decisions, how long students have to be, with the school day looks like, they are all local decisions made by the district. host: be in baltimore. caller: even though there is more food out there and it's being wasted, why is it a problem that these illegal aliens are eating the food and we are paying for it? we're paying for so much waste. i don't think there's any problem with giving away the food anyway if they are reading it. guest: -- host: do you know if illegal aliens are allowed to eat the school lunch program or not? guest: it is not something that we have explored specifically. host: where is the school lunch program going next? what are some other provisions coming down the pipeline? guest: more pretend vegetable, more whole grains, less fat, lower sodium. there rolled in overtime. we will see that improving. we will see things going from partially whole grain to fully whole grain. the most exciting change is the rest of the school food environment. if we want them to

my question for the guests would be if they think local newspapers should reach out for more local cartoonists or cartoons, and if so, how they should go about doing that. host: you say you do local issues in your paper. guest: that is sort of the point of having a political cartoonist on your staff. i am all in favor of publications running as many local cartoonists as they can. a lot of times, that is at the discretion of the publisher and editor. i am not sure exactly what the caller was getting at -- how do you get local curtains into your paper? was that it? basically, just contact the editor. prepare some sketches of your ideas. submit them for approval. if they give you the thumbs up, finished the work and said that it. guest: if you are a reader, contact the publisher and editor and say you would like to see more. guest: thank you. exactly right. host: as we take our next call, we will look at more political cartoons that appeared in this morning's "washington post." caller: i am watching this about the cartoons, about the democrats and republicans, about romney and his running mate. i

i have been involved in local and state politics before now. that is where grass-roots democracy builds. that is where we build up to higher levels of governments. when i heard the president when year ago put medicare and social security on the chopping block, and medicaid as a solution to the crisis, i said, we cannot allow this to go unchallenged. that is what actually brought me into the race. i got a involved to help recruit somebody that could run and represent the green party. and represent the solutions that the american people are clamoring for. in the process, when you join a recruiting committee, sometimes you get recruited yourself. going back, i became involved with the green party to start with about 10 years ago when as a doctor and a mother -- a medical doctor and a mother, i felt like things were unraveling around us. we really did not have a feature to provide for our children. in so many ways from the economy and the rise of epidemic disease, i began to work with our elected officials thinking that surely they would want to do

caller: local everything is on there. this prompts me every year to do my homework and not wait until the last minute or need a debate to be convinced. ever mission is out there if you want to know. host: have you done your homework? who will you vote for? caller: barack obama. host: the lead story in an "the new york times" -- talking foreign policy and foreign relations will be part of the topic on this week's's "newsmakers." joe lieberman talked about all kinds of things including cyber attacks on u.s. institutions and attacks of the u.s. consulate in libya as well as other things. the fact he is retiring from the senate this year and returning to private life. we will show you a little bit of the interview. part of the interview he talks about the attacks, whether or not there was a terrorist attack, and the fact he is puzzled by some of the reaction by the administration that does not identify the attack as a terrorist attack. >> i was puzzled by some people in the administration who was hesitant to call it a terrori

economy a local sheriff -- a local sheriff find someone going down a highway with drugs or something illegal, what do they do with them? if the local border patrol offices several hundred miles away, that is a real problem. this is one of the issues that we are working on. host: alex, democratic caller in springfield, massachusetts. caller: good morning, mr. congressman. host: good morning, we are listening to you. caller: i have been listening to you all morning and you are not giving the president no problem at all. republicans and george bush dropped the ball on 9/11. obama -- under obama they killed osama bin laden and took on all of these other leaders. you are not giving him no props. think you've been listening to what i said. i said i think he deserves credit for continuing the policies that have worked. and to take the osama bin laden examples of a plea, i think the president does deserve credit for issuing the order to go. and i think even greater credit belongs to those intelligence professionals that worked for years to find the leads that ultimately led to bin laden, inc

he said that he is not unaware of the context but that the issues are local and this is a local fight and they need to take care of what's happening here locally. on one hand, local people are aware of what this could mean for the presidential campaign. the president of the american decoration of teachers was here yesterday, randy. so the union is aware of it. ultimately, the issue boils down to a local issues. parents would say this is local, so let's get this finished. host:. : guest: no problem. thank you. host: that was an on the ground prospective from chicago. we will take a look at what the union leader had to say in "usa today." but first let's see comments that mitt romney made on the chicago teachers strike recently. this was an interview with a conservative radio show host on monday. let's get some more calls and hear from florida. windy is a parent. should teachers be allowed to go on strike? caller: they should not. they should be teaching our children. if you want to be a teacher, you have to love and educate children. you want to continue our future in a positive way. t

we have some local newspapers, arizona on our cable this morning. we are showing you the local reporting on these census bureau numbers that the wall street journal of debt. next up is ron who is a democrat. caller: i would have to say the economy is improving over what it has been the past three years. i live in an area that is high tourist vacation area. three years ago you almost could close down the street and everything. this past summer was a boom. i have never seen so many people coming into the area. the town i live in is approximately 1400 people year around. in the summer time it goes up to 30,000. every year, this particular one we have just seen a huge increase in people taking vacations that are interested in coming into the area. through no help of the republican congress, we are doing much better. thank you. good morning. host: thank you for calling in. stephen on torture says this -- -- stephen on twitter says this -- let's look at a few more members from the poll. this is a question commonly asked in a way to understand the mood of

you have the local market, primarily. you can ship it by ship. we hardly have enough ethanol in this country to meet our demands. we are only exporting ethanol in a small amount. many of these programs were set up to stimulate drilling. it takes care of expenses related to dry holes. when an oil company drilled a dry hole, it is a total waste of money. they did not know that when they started drilling. they get to expect that more rapidly under tax laws. they say subsidy. the president often calls it a subsidy. it is a subsidy, but it is also a tax write-off. it is designed to help the industry, but the amount is so tiny relative to the total of the industry. whenever they talk about the subsidies, they talk about $20 billion. that is over a can hear period. it is an industry could lead to $1 trillion per year. the amount that is available for a tax write-off is really small. it could be done away with. the oil companies have said, let's do away with them, but let's do it in the process of another round of major tax reform rather than incremental

caller: i watch cnn, bbc, my local news, c-span, all the debates. people need to watch the debates on c-span, because you would be surprised how much you will learn on how they vote and what they stand for. they will get up there and debate and then turnaround can tell a different story. host: what do you do? caller: i'm a housewife and a grandmother. host: let's go to an undecided voter, don in somerville, florida. caller: one issue is a president should pay more attention to his own job and let hillary clinton do more on job. he keeps interfering with what she is doing and not paying attention to what he is supposed to be doing. host: how is interfering? caller: every time she goes to try to make a deal with somebody, then interferes with that by doing something to interfere with what she's doing. host: why are you and decided? caller: if he would just do his job and let her do her job and then i think that would work out better. he's not letting anybody do their job that's supposed to be doing their jobs. in her case, she cannot do her job becaus

we have a local guy here onwmal radio. if you go to bat website c and look uphris plant, he talked about a campaign at the plate for 1972 where mcgovern was accused of wanting to put 47% of people on welfare. that was a surprise to hear that. yesterday, he played the woman that sounds like geraldine from flip wilson. if you go to that websites ,wmal.com, you can get that phone woman has a ring town for cell phone. i think that was hilarious. host: we will leave it there. guest: i think the news media is one thing that conservatives don't trust. even independence don't trust them. a recent gallup poll said that 60% of people of little or no trust in the news media right now. i don't think they see that as a problem. i think they would have a different problem of they're concerned about losing trust. the latest research from the pew center, 67% of americans thinks the media favors one side. that is a problem. we try to say that you have a problem on your hands. the audience has been shrinking over the last few years because

caller: i am listening locally. host: we appreciate it. gavel-to-gavel coverage on c- span, c-span.org and on c-span radio in the baltimore area as well as serious xm radio. live gavel-to-gavel coverage of all the conventions. and if you go to c-span.org, our convention of, you'll be able to find every minute of every convention since 1984 on line. there is an easy search function. just type in a name. all of the speeches from last night are available. our next call comes from brooklyn, new york. hi, gloria. caller: good morning. host: what did you think of the first lady's speech? caller: i already had my mind made up to vote for obama. i did watch a little bit of the republican convention. paul ryan talked about growing up in the same area and with the same church. it is kind of leave it to beaver. i am retired. and my husband is a vietnam veteran. i want to say i like what they are doing for the vets. grandparents have a lot to do with what is going on. i lived in brooklyn. there's a lot of gun violence. mayor bloomberg is gun-control.

they are taxed in the local market and bring the money back to the u.s.. there's a big movement by executives to eliminate that second tax said they could bring some money back into the u.s. rather than investing it in plants and people overseas. small business -- i was with the small business administration and in number of small businesses -- the majority are smaller businesses. this is where the job creation in the country comes from. small businesses are saying they often times pay the ordinary income tax rate as opposed to the corporate tax rate because they have a smaller number of employees. they fall under the ordinary income tax bracket. we talk about higher taxes on millionaires it is not just individual that get impacted by that. it is small businesses. they are going to wait to put money to work and to hire anyone because they want to make sure they understand what that looks like. you have a portion of small businesses and multinational businesses that get impacted by these tax rates and by this uncertainty. they probably will be more less wil

from "the chicago tribune," a local story that has gone national, "teachers likely to put an end to a weeklong strike." "a price has been exacted as the fiscal outlook worsens." the "-- "the richmond times dispatch," focusing on the battle for prince william county. focusing on the politics in prince william county, virginia. back to your calls, we are focusing on the "the new york times" editorial entitled "the road to retirement." rosalie is on the phone. caller: good morning. thank you for your show. on this retirement, i was wondering, my husband died of lung cancer at 47. i went back to school, got a good job, saved a lot of money. interest rates are dropping down to one-half of 1%. i used to earn between $1,000 and $2,000 for year. i have earned interest of only $138 on $300,000. and i help my children. as i dip into my principal, because i gave slow interest half of 1%, i cannot help my children as much. we are all being affected. i am extremely angry at the interest rates being so low. it is helping the rich people, but what about older people who have saved all that money and

a decent bulk of that money is going into a local television station. host: we have a tweet from james. final thoughts from you, pete kasperowicz, before we wrap up this morning. do we see tea party element alive and well? is that on the minds of congress? guest: they have a couple of weeks to do stuff and i do not think things will change in a couple of weeks. this week they will be doing spending because they have to. it will be interesting to watch . how that goes determines a lot of next year. spending continues to be the issue. the debt is the bigger and bigger risks. bill clinton said we have to manage the data or -- the debt or it will manage us. host: pete kasperowicz from "the hill," thank you so much for being here. and jason dick, thank you to you as well. up next, robert bixby of robert bixby. later on, mickey mccarter. we'll be right back. >> watch and engage with c-span as the candidates prepare to face off in debates. on tuesday, the candidates will take audience questions in a town hall meeting from hofstra university. questions shift to

how would we have education if our local people did not support local schools? there are many things like that where the government can work with people to make sure our efforts are multiplied and that we can actually climbed ladder and become middle-class citizens. it is not a matter of confiscation. it is a matter of rational thought and rational discourse on what kind of society we want. let me give you an example of a young man born of lower income parents, working hard, went through school, got an education and a pretty decent job. he had an accident through no fault of his own that left him paralyzed by a vote -- from the waist down he needed some help and assistance. in order to get back to where he could be a productive member of society. should we say to him tough luck? of course not. we understand and sometimes it is not just compassion. it is understanding that a little bit of investment by the government and all of us together actually makes a stronger. it can be a wise investment in the social fabric, in the human infrastructure of our country. host

a local bank in jersey. i stopped banking with chase because they had charged me a thief for not having enough money in my checking account. i am unemployed and i want to know if there's any corporate type of things like bank of america or chase that don't charge fees for you not having enough in your checking account indiscernible.] guest: if a consumer does not want an overdraft, it's important they not opt into overdraft service. there's a form the bank has to give the consumer that the consumer has to sign saying they want overdraft service. if you never sign that form, you will not have overdraft service. if you spend more than is in your account, the transaction will be declined at the point of sale. or at the atm. a lot of consumers are confused about that. if they do nothing at the bank, they will not have overdraft service and they will not incur those fees. this is from 2010, from a rule that the federal reserve put out in august of 2010. host: long beach, joe, independent scholar. -- caller. calle

the cultural relationship, local government relations between cities and states. those relationships are growing well. this is not an entirely dysfunctional relationship. the problem right now would be generally it the whole relationship with taiwan and the united states ground weapons sales. -- around weapons sales. the issue of the south china sea. china would interpret a recent u.s. policy to be lining -- aligning more closely with the claimants in opposition to china. we have an alliance relationship with japan. we are strengthening that on several fronts. there is a conflict over islands in the east china sea. china would interpret the u.s. position as aligning more closely with the japanese. much of it is territorial. all of it has to do with the chinese conception of sovereignty. host: our guest will be with us until the end of the program at 10:00. if you want to ask a question about secretary clinton's trip or china relations, here is your chance to do so. we have the phone line for democrats, republicans, and independents. you can also tweet bus -- tweet

we need to produce things locally. we have tropical states in the united states. why do we import food from outside of the country? the gentleman talking about mr. obama -- people forget here in the united states the president is now have total control. he makes a proposal to do something, but that congress refuses it. he does not have total control. host: maverick off:twitter says this -- you can weigh in on what you're spending is like. we wanted to show you this ad from mitt romney. he is promoting his jobs plan and also criticizing president obama. [video clip] >> too many working are living paycheck to paycheck, trying to make falling incomes meet rising prices for food and gas. more americans are living in poverty than when president obama took office. 15 million more are on food stamps. president obama and i both care about poor and middle-class families. the difference is my 5 -- my policies will make things better for them. we should not measure compassion by how many people are on welfare. we should measure compassion by how many people get off welfare a

the local boy who could not get the transplant in time -- a horrible story. the look at the interests of nature. is see that in the lifetime paul -- you see that in the lifetime poll. host: michele from pennsylvania. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. your guest has it all wrong. the president laid out very well what he has accomplished and what he plans on doing. i can tell the people understand. do not understand where you're getting this information. the president came into office as saying mess. i do not understand how you can say what you're saying. thank you for taking my call. guest: i appreciate that and you have echoed the chief message from the republicans is going to be -- "four war years is not enough" -- the message from the democrats. you will see lukewarm reaction to the president's talk last night. the speech was move from a 70 ,000-seat venue to smaller than you. .t wasn't a 2008 obama speech a writer from "the washington post" is pulling apart the claim on the debt reduction. it does not make economic sense. it will not work

when this operation started, it was started by local agents. it was not conceived of in washington by officials here. there was plenty in this report for everybody in this case to find something that they like. host: i would imagine most know what was meant by fast and furious. but for those who do not, a short synopsis. caller: it started in 2009. the phoenix office, the atf. it was run by the atf and prosecutors and arizona as an intent -- in arizona as an attempt to get into a drug trafficking ring. they believe there are many that feed semiautomatic rifles to drug cartels in mexico by buying them into the united states and bringing them into mexico. the agents on the ground believed they could not dismantle these smuggling rings by going after the low level buyers. they had the idea of, what if we held off on prosecuting low level buyers and instead waited, let them make their purchases, even if the government suspects it's illegal and build a case against people higher up. host: as far as the guns themselves, a part of the concern is the g

i attended a fund-raiser at a local restaurant for his opponent and i met him. i wrote him a small check. but he only received about 27% of the vote, although he is a brilliant lawyer and former ambassador to the united nations. host: all right, thank you for calling in this morning. by the way, every morning this week, politico is sponsoring what they're calling a playbook breakfast. that is being held in charlotte at packard place. that is the name of the restaurant. we will be bringing that to you live. this morning, and valerie jarrett is there newsmaker guest. that will be coming up this morning at 7:55 a.m. eastern time, valerie jarrett with the folks from "politico." a couple of more facebook comments. are you better off than you were four years ago? host: maria, are you better off than you were four years ago? caller: i am now paying for more taxes than before. after that, i voted for obama and it took me out. they started talking about race. black people and white people. and i decided not to go through it. i saw a woman who voted for obama and he did n

i think some of the locals are a little concerned about the lack of parking, there's a lot of fences, there's a lot of police presence, mostly because of the -- obviously the president is coming to town. but there's been a lot of protestors and a lot of, you know, talked-about protestors so there are several streets closed downtown or uptown, they prefer to call it, but it's okay to get around. today they're having something called the carolina tp-fpt est, bringing in james taylor, north carolina native, to sing, and they're hoping people will comedown town, they've shortened the convention by a day to try to give the local people and north carolina voters basically a fans to feel like they're part of this convention and thursday you mentioned the acceptans speech in bank of america stadium, they've given away tens of thousands of what they call community credentials, tickets to see the president and the vice president speak, james taylor will perform, earth, wind & fire, so they're trying to make people feel part of it and not have it be four days of speeches inside of a small conven

health care, about health care and public policy and how that fits in and out they deal with it on the local level. a couple of front pages we want to show you. this is "the boston globe." "clinton arouses democrats with arguments -- rouses democrats with arguments for obama." here is the "tallahassee democrat" newspaper. charlie crist, former republican governor of florida, will be one of the speakers at the convention. "dems ponder 2014 possibility of him running for governor as the democrats." "orange county register" out of california -- "party star revs up faithful"-- again, talking about bill clinton. among the speakers tonight, tammy baldwin, running for tommy against fo gov. thompson, former governor of wisconsin. brian schweitzer, governor of montana -- he, too, will be speaking vice-president biden will accept the nomination prior to president obama accepting re nomination. we should also mention that at our convention hub, you can watch all past speeches from this convention, plus past speeches from all past conventions since 1984. c-span.org is the website. the daily convention b

they had gotten local press reports that people were disturbed by the video. the statement was "we in america do not approve of religious intolerance." the core of what the romney campaign responded to was a lie. hillary clinton had condemned the attacks on the embassy before mitt romney even made his first a man. so much misinformation. -- before mitt romney even made his first statement. it is frightening i am hearing callers call and and try to skew out the party line which is so amateurish and dangerous for national security. host:patti, what do you think the u.s. response should be? caller: i think the appropriate measures have been taken. the response now will be that the president will make sure to work the libyan intelligence officials and find the actual people that killed the ambassador. it was about 100 people out of the whole country. he will make sure that the response is as swift as possible and targeted at the actual people who committed the crime. host: what do you think about the spreading protest in the yemen? caller: that is the response of

want to clean up the voter registration rolls of noncitizens so we had a case in fort myers where a local tv station, nbc affiliate found there were over 100 people in one county that said i can't serve on a jury because i'm a noncitizen but had registered to vote and in some cases voted. they want to clean up the voter registration rolls. they don't have the best information. so they went to the obama administration and said please give us your records, they were required to surrender those records, they didn't do it. there was a long court case, finally they gave the records over. this is an example of why this is needlessly polarized. we should agree on basic facts. we should make it easy to vote and hard to cheat. we can do both. we're america. sadly, we have i think two sides that seem to be talking past each other when the common sense, good government approach is let's streamline the voting process, reduce bureaucratic bundling and also make it charter -- hardtory cheat because there is cheating out there. i can give you example after example. in madison county, florida, the electi